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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"phobias"”.
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Examining the roles of fear and disgust in emetophobia
… of vomit-related stimuli. Literature on specific phobias has proposed that the emotion of disgust can play a role in some specific phobias, whereas fear and anxiety have long been considered the primary emotions involved. The present study examined the roles of fear and disgust in avoidance of a …
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Precipitating and prophylactic factors contributing to posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology in maltreated children
… for depression, generalized anxiety and phobias. Hypotheses were not supported for coping skills, locus of control, resilience/hardiness, affect regulation, or support networks.
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Temporal Dynamics of the Defense Cascade
… threat can inform therapeutic interventions for phobias, anxieties, and PTSD. The defense cascade is reviewed as a theoretical model that predicts behavioral and physiological responses to threats. Nineteen undergraduates (five male), average age 19.4 experienced a novel virtual reality (VR) …
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A Case Study of Three Children from Single-Parent Divorced Families
… mastery by activity and play; anger, fears, and phobias; responsibility for the divorce; shaken sense of identity; loneliness and loyalty conflicts; somatic symptoms; changes in school performance; changes in the parent-child relationship; and empathy. Conclusions. The children in this study had …
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EVALUATING THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF BASC-3 ANXIETY SCALE AND WORKING MEMORY INDEX SCORES FOR CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT TEST ANXIETY: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF NON-CLASSIFIABLE CASES
… worry, social fears, panic attacks, and specific phobias (APA, 2022). It was described as often triggering our natural “fight-or-flight” response, which can impact our ability to focus, think clearly, and remember things. For students, test anxiety has been especially challenging, affecting how …
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EVALUATING THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF BASC-3 ANXIETY SCALE AND WORKING MEMORY INDEX SCORES FOR CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT TEST ANXIETY: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF NON-CLASSIFIABLE CASES
… worry, social fears, panic attacks, and specific phobias (APA, 2022). It was described as often triggering our natural “fight-or-flight” response, which can impact our ability to focus, think clearly, and remember things. For students, test anxiety has been especially challenging, affecting how …
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Barriers to Referral of Anxious Youth in Pediatric Care: An Examination of the Latent Structure
… with anxiety disorders ranging from specific phobias (Davis, Ollendick & Ost, 2009) to generalized anxiety disorder (Kendall, 1994). However, many children and adolescents will not receive these treatments if the child’s physician fails to provide a referral. Thus the aim of the current study …
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Understanding occupational therapists' use of acceptance and commitment therapy in New Zealand
… of conditions including depression, anxiety, phobias, schizophrenia and pain, yet there is little empirical research supporting its use by occupational therapists. Acceptance and commitment therapy aims to increase engagement in meaningful activities in a strengths-based non-judgmental way. It …
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The effects of cognitive self-instructional strategies on children's fear of fire
… is when these fears develop into severe fears or phobias that they become of concern to clinicians. Children's fears have varied over the years from school related fears, to political fears, to fears of danger and death in most recent years. Of the latter category, fear of fire-getting burned …
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A psychological analysis of the effects of memory retrieval prior to extinction on the reacquisition of a conditioned fear association
… such as post-traumatic stress disorder or phobias. Existing treatments for these conditions, however, require many treatment sessions and are prone to relapse. A new technique, first demonstrated in rats by Monfils, Cowansage, Klann, & LeDoux (2009) and later shown to be effective in humans …
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Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four
… production of racial-sexual panics and phobias as a strategy of both physical/geographical and discursive containment, and argue that the continued production of these panics and phobias, by sectors including but not limited to the state and the mass media, promote a strategy of …
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GLASS SHOULDERS
… polar selves is the ingredient to healing her phobias and disconnections, granting Spirit integration, or do her fractured selves support greater sensory experience that enhance her perceptions of self and Spirit toward new levels of recognition. The poems contain a variety of humor, tone, and …
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Animal madness : a natural history of disorder
… insanity, nervous disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, depression, obsessive compulsivities, suicidal behaviors and more, has not only served as a way of affixing meaning to puzzling animal acts, but has been used to denote borders (or lack thereof) between certain groups of humans and certain …
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NMDAR-PSD95-nNOS Axis-Mediated Molecular Mechanisms in the Basolateral Amygdala Underlying Fear Consolidation
… persistent fear responses lead to development of phobias, generalized fear, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The primary goal of experiments in this dissertation is to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying formation of fear memories. The acquisition and consolidation of fear is …
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Comparitive activities and mechanisms of action of three novel antiulcer agents
… disorders, like depression, panic disorders, phobias and many personality disorders. TOFu is a polypeptide growth factor, which acts at the EGF receptor and displays potent mitogenic and antisecretory activity. The initial study deals with the comparison of the three compounds with omeprazole …
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Coulrophobia: An Investigation into the Prevalence, Origins and Psychological Basis of the Fear of Clowns
… fear rate (5.1%) was observed to other specific phobias. Overall, a multi-factorial explanation can be attributed to clown fear, including the appearance and behaviour of clowns, as well as the negative media representations. Future research directions on this topic are discussed in the final …
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Measuring prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy in freely moving participants
… has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of phobias; yet little is known about its underlying neural mechanisms. Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that both traditional exposure therapy and virtual reality exposure therapy normalise brain activity within a prefrontal - amygdalar fear …
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A computer instructional model designed to reduce cyberphobia among adult students
Fear of computers -- Student/subject-centered teaching model.
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A computer instructional model designed to reduce cyberphobia among adult students
Fear of computers -- Student/subject-centered teaching model.
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